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Arrived in Burlington today after a 10+ hour drive between yesterday and today. Beautiful drive from Rome, NY through some of Vermonts back roads including the Fort Ticonderoga ferry. Looking forward to the match tomorrow night. Go Zips!!

I’d be willing to pay a little extra for my Men’s soccer season tickets if UA would provide soccer scarves again. I like looking back on those various designs over the seasons / rosters.

Plus they do discount codes every couple games

I’m working remote today and watched the volleyball game while I was working and they just got a really nice win. They are now 5-2 and just beat a 5-2 WKU in 4 sets and 2 they had to come back from behind. Fun game. I heard the mac is really competitive but it’s good to see an Akron team getting the job done

How many UA soccer fans are there who say, I'd go for $8, but $15 is too much? It is still an incredible value for your entertainment dollar, and it is literally the highest level of amateur soccer in the country.

Vermont also has a higher tuition and probably less debt. Also doesn’t have FBS football to sponge up the other sports budgets. Akron unfortunately probably needs the price where it is to hit whatever budget deficit they want to target. I’d prefer cheaper and more fans obviously but I assume it’s a reason more than capitalist gain

Also, not a critique of Vermont (maybe more a critique of Akron) but their tickets are all general admission at $8. Compare that to Akron where $15 gets you a GA ticket where you can only sit on the ends or on the hill. Also saw that Vermont season tickets are only $50.

Obviously a big match with two tops teams in the country. Zips going on the road to the defending national champions and I saw on the Vermont site that the game is sold out. Should be a fun one!

I think that's true for college athletics as a whole, particularly football. It has only been in the last 20 years or so where its become more common to see Universities to build new stadiums or do extensive renovations on existing ones. I imagine a lot of that has to do with the fact pro sports has been getting 100s of millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for such things for decades. Making it more profitable for owners to want a new taxpayer stadium every 25 years since they absorb less of the cost. Its probably only been in the last 20-30 years that P4 revenue streams (particularly Big 10/SEC) has exploded to the point where building cathedrals has become obtainable. Before that college football was still amateur, at least much more closer to it than it is now.

Wednesday September 10 UConn got a 3-1 win at Brown Xavier and Evansville 3-3 tie Creighton earned a 3-2 win at home over Omaha Thursday September 11 St John’s 1-0 win at home over Fairleigh Dickinson Sacred Heart went on the road and tied Seton Hall 2-2

I guess when I think of CBB I tend to think of old arenas. I had no idea the MAC had two schools with new arenas in the 21st Century.

BGSU got the Stroh Center in 2011. Before them is was NIU in 2002. As you can tell it didn't lead to on the court success for either.

I'd be interested to know the last time a MAC school got a new basketball arena.?.?. I think Miami is getting a new arena but it isn't built yet.

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/education/2025/09/11/university-of-akron-sees-higher-undergraduate-graduate-enrollment/86093682007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z112727p000050c000050e009300v112727b0054xxd005465&gca-ft=39&gca-ds=sophi This is promising, would love that number to keep creeping up closer to 20k

If you add in the $4.5-$5 million we're paying for Infocision then we're spending about just as much as OU on football. The difference is on how the money is getting spent. OU using it for staffing, training tables, and whatever else. We blew it on a shiny stadium that we couldn't afford, which sits empty. Edit: Kind of gets back to the point I make 1-2 times a year when major JAR renovations are discussed. Facility improvements are prohibitively expensive and you get more return on your dollars (from a performance perspective) on investing in coaches, recruiting, and whatever else instead.

Comment regarding the offensive struggles - and I’m as disappointed as anyone else - but it’s worth noting we’ve been trotting out literally only ONE returning starter (Finley) on offense so far. Polk could maybe count as two. I imagine it’s takes that many players playing together in their first season some time to gel..

I’m old enough to remember Zip Cat claim Akron had a $30mm football budget… We get what we pay for.

In the words of the great philosopher Bernard P. Fife- NIP IT IN THE BUD. 😁

Maybe if the SEC and B1G split off entirely and form a ~36 team league. If it's the P4 all splitting off together I wouldn't see the value in a league of just the G5.

I can see the argument for a division between the P4(2?) and FCS.

FYI only - there were some recent instances where the behavior of a couple members didn't meet the standards of ZipsNation. When this happens it drives good people away, and puts a damper on quality conversation. I apologize. I tend to give people a really long leash, and I probably need to nip this stuff in the bud quicker.

Sounds good to me! In any case, change needs to happen ASAP.

No need for another division when the FCS exists already.

Professionals versus amateurs, and that's precisely why there needs to be another division in college football that the entire MAC moves to.

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/article/?categoryId=21&articleId=55064&articleTitle=tds-mens-player-of-the-year-leaderboard I didn't want to create a separate topic for this. If you click on the article above, you can see that Top Drawer Soccer has identified Mitch as one of the 10 players that should be considered as the best college soccer player of the year. The Player of the Year leaderboard is a weekly list of the ten players making the best case to win the prestigious award. The latest update features three newcomers who have helped their programs to historic starts. Mitch Budler, Akron (Newcomer) Budler breaks into the leaderboard thanks to an incredible start to the season, where Akron is yet to concede a goal despite playing four teams that have been nationally ranked at one point or another. The reigning Big East goalkeeper of the year has so far proven he may be the best in the country.